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Barroso, Verheugen, Fischer Boel and ®agar to address assembly
On Wednesday 6 February, the Committee of the Regions (CoR) will elect a new President to serve for the second half of its current four-year term, which runs to February 2010. The first plenary session of the year, which will take place in the European Parliament, will also see the election of the CoR's new First Vice-President, 27 Vice-Presidents of the national delegations and other members of the Bureau.
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From 28 January – 1 February, the week will bring together European institutions, civil society and players on the energy the market. In the wake of the Bali conference, participants will take stock of the last twelve months and review recent political developments, particularly in the context of the adoption of the new package on energy and climate change.
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Is the EU going in the right direction? Does it make a difference where it really counts? Is it being overly meddlesome in trivial areas and not intervening enough in others?
Whatever your opinion, you can sign in and have your say when the new interactive Debate Europe website goes live on 29 January.
Commissioners Stavros Dimas (environment), Andris Piebalgs (energy) and Margot Wallström (communication) and other commission staff will be online between 15.00 and 17.00 (Central European Time) to launch the debate and field your comments.
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Janez Janša, Prime Minister of Slovenia and President of the EU Council, set out the policy priorities of his country's presidency in an address on Wednesday to MEPs. As Parliament's President Hans-Gert Pöttering pointed out, this was the first time that one of the central European countries who had joined the EU in 2004 was holding the presidency.
Mr Janša told the House of a time in 1988 when he was arrested for criticising the then Yugoslav regime, and how the popular protests which had ensued had "set in motion the beginnings of change". Now he stood before European Parliament as Prime Minister of Slovenia and President of the European Council. "If anyone had predicted such a possibility twenty years ago in my prison cell, I would not have believed one word of it", he said.
Turning to the priorities of his country's presidency over the coming six months, he highlighted the ratification of the Lisbon Treaty, saying "We hope that by the end of the Slovenian Presidency, the majority of the Member States will have followed in Hungary's footsteps. The Slovenian Parliament will decide on ratification before the end of this month. The goal is to have the Lisbon Treaty enter into force on 1 January 2009".